Love Lies And Disorder: Recent Episodes
Dean Purcell
I will be talking about my personal experiences through struggling with and being diagnosed with EUPD and C-PTSD, the difficulties faced with these mental health conditions, including suicidal behaviour and self-harm. The experiences through toxic and dysfunctional relationships and how mental health can impact the functioning and effectiveness of a relationship, and how relationships impact on mental health, and how people can use your mental health as a weapon against you. Also, my experiences with the police and how they can have a significant impact on the process of a case and to a signif
During a period of working through changing and turning my life around, my mum suffered a stroke and I lost control and ended up with a criminal case pending. This period was difficult and was a struggle to work through given such significant events pulling me and holding me back. As much as I tried to get myself to a better place it just seemed like there were situations and circumstances creating significant obstacles. (Stroke happened in 2009 - not 2019)
This episodes talks about a period of my life that involves drinking heavily, drugs, arrests and casual sex. 4 years of my life which is difficult to remember due to self sabotaging. Existing in a state of numbness and oblivion induced heavily by excessive drinking and drugs.
This episode talks about a significant time in my life, through an experience that triggered a severe deteriation in my mental health and caused enough trauma to change me as a person. The lies and deception told and played out from an ex-partner, spoken about in this episode, caused severe emotional and psychological damage, and derailed my life significantly.
This episode talks about a period of my life, in which, a partner was deceiving me, saying that she was pregnant when she wasn't, and was leading me on for several months. This is PART 1 which covers the first part up to me getting away from her, and the next episode will be PART 2 and that will show how she used further tactics and play more games with my life.
This episode talks about the period of my life (from 15 to early 20s) where I had turned to drinking and drug use, as a means of coping and dealing with everything. As, well as talking about my two first relationships, and my first experiences of struggling with my mental health.
This episode gives insight into the early years of my life and how situations and events that occurred, had impacted on me and helped to develop some difficulties in my younger years, that could then go on to, lead to dysfunctional and toxic behaviours in my adult life, as well as contributing to the development of mental health conditions I would later be diagnosed with. The things spoken about in this episode become more relevant further into the story, particularly when it comes to talking about arrests and issues within toxic and dysfunctional relationships.
This is a brief welcome/Introduction to the Love Lies and Disorder podcast. Explaining that the podcast is to raise public awareness, and for journalistic purposes, in the raising of the issues that are going to be spoke about on this podcast throughout. No names or personal information will be shared and the opinions and thoughts shared throughout, are my own.